Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Carey

Any positive thing like that will absolutely create problems. But I thought it was and still is a wonderful thing.

Carl Mydans

As he came across the deck, tapping the deck with his cane, the entire ship was absolutely silent. And the sound of him coming to surrender his country -- tap, tap, tap -- affected me greatly. And my vindictive feelings about him vanished.

John Scarlett

As a bureaucracy becomes more established, it develops its own career structure. It is less dependent, and should be less dependent, on individual personalities. Absolutely no one is indispensable.

David Call

As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I didn't have well-funded arts programs and some great teachers who were constantly pushing me intellectually and personally.

Carole Strayhorn

As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.

Michael Shaw

The bottom line -- GPS is absolutely critical to our nation's economic well being.

Andy Blackston

(The Bulldogs) just absolutely don't beat themselves. To beat them you have to outplay them.

Frank Hancock

The boy did absolutely what you'd want children to do. Quite honestly, he should be commended for the job he did, not criticized for it.

Carrie Martin

The bottom line is we will be clearer. We will make every effort to explain that better. We will be absolutely clear that this is a reimbursement.

Rita Ora

Anytime I go on Twitter, there's always the good but the bad as well.

Brian Billick

Any player you bring in, you have to be concerned about team chemistry. It's not necessarily the guy may or may not be a bad apple. It's just in terms of demeanor and work ethic. We have very good team chemistry. This team has been together for a while and has developed a certain camaraderie. You don't want to disrupt that.

Carlos Gonzalez

As far as I can recall, the least we'd had were 25 people in previous seasons. We've had bad sales, but never like this.

Randeep Hooda

As human beings, we are all flawed. And just like there is a good side, there is also a bad side waiting to find its way out.

Scooter Smith

A shot on net is never a bad thing, especially in this league and in this rink. You get some funny bounces here. We want to put as many pucks on net as we can and get to the front of the net and jam home rebounds.

Bill Richardson

As for Lee, he committed a crime, but he also was badly treated,

Stan Heath

As for a pure point guard, there is a picture of Ronald Steele in the dictionary. He can turn it on and turn it off, and he never turns it off at a bad time. He finds ways during the game to rest himself and when it's time at the end of the game to take it over, he's still got the gas in his tank.

Judith Miller

a serious violation of international law, a dangerous precedent. The United States has sent a very bad signal to the rest of the world.

Tiger Woods

As golfers, we rationalize everything. You hit a bad shot and think, 'I can make birdie from there.' That's how you're supposed to think. You should always try and look at the glass as half full. But any time your parents aren't doing well and their health isn't where it could be and you think it should be, it's always tough. Everyone has to deal with that at some point in time in their life and unfortunately, right now it's our time.

Jason Ricci

Cody and Luther were kids in high school who used to come to the juke joint and sit in the corner, petrified of interacting. But I didn't look at Junior and R.L. as giant heroes of the blues. I looked at them as living continuations of Fred McDowell and John Lee Hooker and guys like that. It was a cultural experience for me.

Simon Rattle

The situation is catastrophic. I can see the hopeless situation of the city... this cultural dismantling is an incredible shame for Berlin.

David Harsanyi

A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.

Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi

I have strong interests in supporting sport, primarily football, and also in developing cultural relationships within national communities and their diasporas, with special reference to Ethiopia.

Johnathan Frakes

I didn't know anything about the original Star Trek outside of the fact that it was a cultural phenomenon.

Ang Lee

I was nervous last time, likely because I shouldered a cultural mission for reinvigorating the Chinese-language film industry back then.

Mira Nair

Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.

Stephen Perkins

It's a side of museums that many people don't see and sometimes don't understand when they see it in your budget. It's something that happens out of the way and it's not flashy but we're ensuring the long-term health of the cultural legacy of the area.

Mark Harrison

It pulls kids from every peer group, of every cultural background.

Terrence Gabriel

I think the Qualcomm report may be dampening sentiment and Compaq's report is somewhat mixed. It does seem that disappointment over the Qualcomm report is feeding into the tech stocks.

Greg Johnson

I think the opportunity for flies to pick this up may be feeding on saliva, but we're not 100 percent sure.

David Buckley

The government was very supportive of this project. Maybe it doesn't have immediate benefits, like housing or feeding people or giving them jobs. But turning kids onto science is really crucial.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Richard Shelby

This is perhaps just the tip of an iceberg. We need security at our national labs. ... It has been too loose, too long, and it's too important,

Shay Doron

That's what makes our team so dangerous. That's why we're national champions, because we're tough at every position.

Josh Pastner

We're here to win a national championship. This is not a rebuilding stage. It's not a question of talent. We've got pros on our team.

Eric Swalwell

I think having a national system that tracks who owns guns is fine. I don't think we need to be printing it on the Internet.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

E. Helm

We're playing in a tournament where somebody's going to the national tournament. It's that simple. And we'll compete.

Madeline Albright

breakthrough because we have been working at this for seven years, and it is very important for national security.

Albert Murray

The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Greg Knapp

This is the first year that he's starting off in the same offense, healthy, back-to-back.

Jim Lett

You're starting to be real competitive, aren't you?

Brian Tracy

If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.

Edwidge Danticat

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

Bob Henricks

We are at a better starting place than Sweetwater was.

Dwight Howard

This team is trying to go in a dramatically different direction. We're starting over young.

Gary Sheffield

This team is resilient. We don't quit. Now we're starting to come into our own.

Jeffrey Eisenberg

We feel like we're starting from scratch. The only thing we know is that we don't know anything.

Phil Klay

I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.

Ben Macintyre

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

Bashar al-Assad

Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

Bashar al-Assad

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

Bashar al-Assad

In any war, people will pay the price.

Bashar al-Assad

Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington's approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Bashar al-Assad

In the war, you lose areas, but you recapture another area. So, it is difficult to tell whether you are losing or gaining or it was a standstill. No-one has this answer.

Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Jim Calhoun

You find you think more about what can go wrong when you're the hunted. When you're the hunter, you think about all the things that can go right.

Shashi Tharoor

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Marianne Williamson

Much like a GPS, love re-calibrates itself if you've made a wrong turn.

Rajon Rondo

He was crowding me. I think that's the wrong way to play me. Not to be cocky.

Kathleen Ham

I feel very, very vindicated. I feel a wrong has been righted.

George Eliot

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

Abraham Lincoln

It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong

Winston Churchill

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Larry King

I think he was the wrong person. He wasn't the target.